fox hunting
noun
a sport in which mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox.
fox hunter
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a word derived from
fox hunting.
fox-hunter
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a word derived from
fox-hunting.
fox huntingnouna sport in which mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox.
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A senior fox hunter has been found guilty of encouraging and assisting people to evade the ban on fox hunting.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2021
Roberts was a prominent member of the Oxford community: He enjoyed a reputation as a crack fox hunter, he played fiddle at local celebrations and he was white.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2018
An avid fox hunter, he showed up sporting jodhpurs and brandishing a quirt.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2015
Winston Churchill recently called him "a gentleman, a fox hunter, a friend."
From Time Magazine Archive
I trapped my first fox when about twelve years old, by following a method given me by my grandfather, who was, in his day, a famous New England fox hunter.
From Fox Trapping A Book of Instruction Telling How to Trap, Snare, Poison and Shoot - A Valuable Book for Trappers by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding
He had been an officer in the Dragoons, an excellent horseman, and a keen fox-hunter.
From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville
No fox-hunter ever prepared himself for the field by more substantial appliances.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
The timber was carried away to be used in the erection of an inn, and the minister’s house converted into the dwelling of a fox-hunter.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson
Pink Petty, the famous fox-hunter with the silver-mounted horn; Capt.
From The Southern Soldier Boy A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy by James Carson Elliott
He was a stern and determined man; he was short of stature, stout of frame, and sat his powerful horse like the fox-hunter that he was.
From The Tory Maid by Herbert Baird Stimpson
